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Haruki Murakami Quotes about Reality

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It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami
Heart, Reality, Sea
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.24, Random House

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Thinking, Way
Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.231, Random House

Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.

Haruki Murakami
Strong, Independent, Reality

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Fool, Appearance
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.18, Random House

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, People, Realizing
Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

Haruki Murakami
Moon, Reality, World
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 24, 2014

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

Haruki Murakami
Fall, Reality, Sound

Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.

Haruki Murakami
Lonely, Reality
Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84 Sampler”, p.4, Random House

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Space, Adrift
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 15, 2014

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Able, Imagine

In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Order, Needs

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

Haruki Murakami
Cutting, Reality, Imagination
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 07, 2011

We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Two, Unexpected
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 08, 2016

How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

Haruki Murakami
Breakup, Reality, Love Is

Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.

Haruki Murakami
Heart, Reality, Flames
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 22, 2015

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Leaving, Principles
Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.149, Random House

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

Haruki Murakami
Sleep, Reality, Long

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Depends

In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.

Haruki Murakami
Dream, Hurt, Reality
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 05, 2017

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Leaving Me, Not Afraid

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Haruki Murakami
Life, Reality, Promise

There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

Haruki Murakami
Dream, Reality, Pliers
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 25, 2014

It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Everyday, Ordinary
FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 31, 2016

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Different, Looks
"1Q84: Books 1 and 2". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2011.

The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

Haruki Murakami
Reality, Waiting, Used
"What I Talk about When I Talk about Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 15, 2007.

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